San Diego County Ivalua #RFQ 13009

Support and maintenance for VxRail S670 Servers and VMware licensing or County approved equivalent

The County of San Diego awarded a contract to The Drala Project, Inc. dba The Redesign Group, located in El Segundo, CA, for support and maintenance services of three VxRail S670 servers and VMware licensing or an approved equivalent. The procurement includes hardware support, VMware licensing for 72 cores, and storage support for approximately 40TB of used capacity with a total capacity of about 130TB. The contract was initiated following RFQ 13009 issued on January 27, 2026, with quotations due by February 17, 2026. The support services encompass hardware repair, software updates, and licensing support, with a contract period starting March 1, 2026, and options for two additional one-year extensions. The environment hosts various workloads including domain controllers, file servers, remote desktop servers, and databases such as SQL Server and Veeam backup databases. The environment is a single-site cluster with N+1 node failure resiliency, following CJIS security policies. OEMs involved include Dell EMC (VxRail) and VMware, with licensing impacted by Broadcom's acquisition of VMware. The contract emphasizes technical performance, long-term reliability, and cost reasonableness, with evaluation based on compliance, experience, technical approach, and price.

Description

The County of San Diego awarded contract 575425 for support and maintenance of three VxRail S670 servers and VMware licensing or a County approved equivalent. The awardee is The Drala Project, Inc. dba The Redesign Group, located in El Segundo, CA. The contract was awarded following a Request for Quotation (RFQ) 13009 issued on January 27, 2026, with quotations due by February 17, 2026. The procurement includes support and maintenance services in accordance with the terms and conditions specified in the RFQ.

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